Cover for memorandum sales-slip books



w. KINNARD. COVER FOR MEMORANDUM SALES SLIP BOOKS.

(No Model.)

'No. 555,995. Batented Aug. 1a, 1896.

THE nomus mzns co. PHOYGJJTH UNITED STATES- PATENT OFF-ICE.

WILL M. KINNARD, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE OARTER-ORUME COMPANY, OF NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK.

COVER FOR MEMORANDUM SALES-SLIP BOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of IQetters Patent No. 565,995, dated August 18, 1896. Application filed October 14, 1893. Serial No. 488,153. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILL M. KINNARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the. county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Covers for Memoran dum Sales-Slip Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, refer ence being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cover for memorandum sales-slips within which the slips ready for usemay be secured;

and it consists of a certain novel construct-ion and arrangement to be hereinafter more particularly pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cover with the slips removed, showing method of securing same. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the sales-slips. Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective of one corner of the back of the book.

The sales-slips a are formed in the usual way, folded at the center, so as to form an original and a duplicate slip. The slips are arranged in packages of fiftyor one hundred or as many as may be desired, and they are then stitched by threads I) b or otherwise suitably secured to a stiff back of pasteboard c, or other suitable material. The cover is made of stilf paper, or other suitable material, a little more than double the length of the package of slips and is folded at the center to form the top cover A and the back cover B of the book, two folds being made to allow for the thickness of the package, as shown in Fig. 1. Attached either integrally or otherwise to the sides of the top cover A, at its inner or upper edges, are the side flaps or strips cl d; and the top cover is also creased across its face at about the inside edge of these strips dd, so that the cover may be opened and folded back at this crease 6 when the package of slips is in place.

The inner face of the bottom B is formed with a pocket open at the top f, made by securing at the edges of the bottom the sheet of paper or other suitable material g, and a sheet of carbon or other transfer material C is secured to the top coverAat the inner edge of the crease e. This method of securing the carbon-sheet to the cover instead of fastening it to the packages of slips, as is usually done in sales-slip books of this kind, forms one of the novel features of my invention. 5 5 Where the carbon-sheet is secured to the package of slips, a stub must be left in the book, to which a carbon-leaf. is attached, and as the slips are used and torn from the book the carbon-leaf is very apt to become frayed by wearing on the ridge left by the stubs. Each slip also has to be perforated at the stub, so that it may be readily detached, which requires extra labor and entails additional expense. Where it has been sought to attach the carbon-leaf at the stub-line to overcome the objection to the wearing of the carbon at the stub above mentioned, extra labor is necessary. To overcome these'defects, I attach my carbon-leaf to the cover, as above described. When the cover has been formed as above, it is ready to receive the package of slips. r

The stilf back oof the package is slipped within the pocket in the bottom cover at f, and the top cover is folded over to inclose the package of slips into the portion shown in Fig. 1, while the flaps or strips cl cl are folded down over the upper side edges of the package and pasted on or otherwise secured to the bottom, as shown in Fig. 3, and the book is ready for use. With this method of'binding the package of slips in the cover, it will be seen that it is not necessary to stitch or otherwise secure the pages of the book to the 55 cover, as is usually done. The stiff backpiececbeing held in the pocket on the cover B and the inner or upper end of the package of slips being held in the receptacle formed by folding over and securing the strips cl d to 0 the bottom B, the package is securely heldin place without further binding and can-only be removed by bending the back-piece c, which back-piece is formed of such stifilmaterial that in use the package is securely held 5 in the cover.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a memorandumsales-slip book, the mo combination, with a bound package of slips folded in the center to form sheets for origislips and a cover provided with a pocket in IO the back and side extensions at the inner end of the top arranged to be folded over and secured to the back cover when the slips are in place substantially as shown and described.

WILL M. KINNARD. Vitnesses:

WILBUR G. KENNEDY, OSCAR M. GOTTSCHALL. 

